Crime & Safety

Alleged Killer Of Westwood Star Arrested After America's Most Wanted Appearance

Ryan Henry shot and killed last year outside West Virginia bar

The person who allegedly shot and killed a former Westwood basketball star last year in West Virginia was arrested Monday, a day after the case was profiled on America's Most Wanted, the longtime crime show reported Tuesday.

Rasshammach Roberts, 29, of Cumberland, Md., was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., the site reported.

Roberts is accused of pulling the trigger on the gun that killed Ryan Henry, 25, outside a bar on Labor Day weekend last year. His brother, Ricky, 23, was also shot, but survived.

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The fight started over a misunderstanding about a girl, authorities said. Three others have been arrested in connection the shooting conspiracy, including Roberts' brother Rasjahon.

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Once fingerprints confirmed the person they had in custody was in fact the person wanted for Ryan Henry's murder, investigators say Roberts confessed to watching the AMW episode.

Roberts was in custody in Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to West Virginia.The Henry brothers were in the area visiting family members, according to reports.

Henry graduated from in 2004 and played four years of basketball at Fisher College in Massachusetts, from which he graduated with a bacherlor's degree. He was the captain of a Fischer College team that went 25-6 in the 2009-2010 season.

He also attended middle school and high school in Teaneck, according to his obituary.

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